[Veritas-bu] what license are required to backup VMs as normal client backups

[Boris Kraizman]

Hello James,

Symantec license each OS channel per ESX host, then 10 Windows VMs on the
same physical ESX host would require just one Windows license. the same for
any other virtual platforms.

Hope this helps.

thank you,
B

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:03 AM, James Osbourn <jo4 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

> If you are backing them up as if there were physical machines then you
> will need one license for each machine.  NetBackup does not license
> differently for virtual machines.
>
> In fact you are better of going this way as the vcb backup method can
> cost you more in licensing.
>
> Regards
>
> James
>
> mark wragge wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have purchased Netbackup Starter Pack with 5 standard client license.
> > I would like to backup some Virtual Machines (win2003, winxp and linux).
> > I have 10 VMs in total.
> >
> > Does each VM have to be licensed if i back it up? Are the client
> > licenses treated the same as physical server backups?
> >
> > I will not be using VCB backups.
> >
> > Thanks for any help, Mark
> >
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